EDHD 411 Study Guide - Final Guide: Learned Helplessness, Descriptive Statistics, Object Permanence
27 Feb 2018
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Two extreme views: radical empiricism: simple sensory primitives, radical nativism: knowledge and behavior are innate; organized into faculties. Empiricism illustrated: word learning: smith & yu (2008) 28 12-month-old infants and 27 14-month-old infants. 6 words spoken over loudspeaker to infants by female speaker. At each trial, two objects presented on a white screen as woman spoke. Training trial results: infants highly attentive to training slides. Test trial results: 12-month-olds looked for 5. 6 seconds, 14-month-olds for 6. 1 seconds. Infants look at target over distracter; 14-month-olds looked longer than 12-month-olds. No: key themes & theories in child development. Example: werner (1950) goal: find out how biological & environmental factors influence children"s intellectual, social, and emotional growth. !2: children with problems and adverse family circumstances generally developed serious learning/behavioral problems by age 10. Key theories in child development: piaget"s theory. Knowledge of the world organized into schemes or theories. Children actively seek out new information through exploration and play.
